Piston Sledge
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Equip—Sacrifice an artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20037
Piston Sledge lands as a +3/+0 trample pump with free equip — paid by sacrificing an artifact — that can attach itself to any creature for just one mana. The equip cost is the card's whole game: in an artifact-heavy shell it's nearly free, and outside one it's a liability.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Piston Sledge earns a slot in artifact or sacrifice synergy decks — Breya, Oshiro, or any Daretti-style build where a spent Treasure or Clue is a free equip trigger. In Modern and Legacy, the competition from equipment like Colossus Hammer and Sword cycle is too stiff; Piston Sledge's conditional equip cost doesn't compete with equipment that either costs less or grants more. Vintage has access to so much broken equipment and artifact abuse that it barely registers. The card's real home is Commander, where the artifact density is self-selected and trample on a large creature closes games.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Piston Sledge is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Price movement is essentially zero; this is a role-player card that lives at the bottom of the bulk box indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.